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Ziebap ('ZEE-bap') was an early experiment in which multiple passes of analude were recorded over a simple rhythmic background. The session was 8 minutes long and this is the final 3 minutes. What emerged seems to express feelings at times like those of an excited young child playing with a new toy set, or an older child running through wind-driven trees on a hot summer night, or a young adult wandering the city, working, playing, finding new things, enjoying the challenge, life is a challenge, but always moving, always alone, and yet underneath, sometimes, wondering, where is the home? Is there a home?
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Technical Note: Ziebap was also partly an experiment with what some musicologists call a '7-limit' scale. That is: many passages in Ziebap use only the tones on the just scale whose frequency ratio (the tone's frequency divided by the fundamental key frequency) contains the prime number 7 or whole multiples of it, such as 7/6, 21/16, 27/14, 8/7, 10/7, etc. The movement from these tones to the just major scale (and back) can be heard at time 1:03 to major, and at 2:18 back to 7-limit.
 

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from Consumed: Electric Analude Instrumentals, Volume 2, released December 21, 2012
 
Instruments: Mono analude (three passes), shakers, brief vocals.
 
Recorded: 1981 in Ottawa.

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